Consumer Product Enforcement Report

Current Annual Compliance and Enforcement Reports

Data dashboard on compliance and enforcement reporting for the Consumer Product Safety Program

Previous Annual Compliance and Enforcement Reports

Consumer Product Enforcement Summary Reports

The Consumer Product Enforcement Summary Reports provide information to industry and consumers on products reviewed by Health Canada. The Reports inform Canadians as to which products met or did not meet safety standards and include:

a description of the scope of the enforcement project,
compliance with regulations,
testing results, and
corrective actions.

Consumer Product Enforcement Summary Reports are produced by Health Canada at the end of each planned enforcement project.

Note: These summary reports relate only to the products actually tested and the specific criteria indicated. Testing by Health Canada does not represent approval or endorsement of the products.

Lexicon

The following terms may be used in Consumer Product Enforcement Summary Reports and have been defined for your convenience:

Commitment:: Voluntary action by the establishment to correct future batches or shipments of the product or take other actions to ensure future compliance.
Correction:: Voluntary action(s) by the establishment to modify or change a product, packaging, labelling, and/or advertising to bring the product into compliance with the requirement or other actions to address non-compliance of the establishment with the Act.
Disposal:: Voluntary action by the establishment to dispose of or destroy a non-compliant product. The product is made no longer usable or saleable and cannot be redistributed in Canada.
Order:: A written notice, issued under section 31 and/or 32 of the CCPSA, ordering a person to recall their product and/or take measures (such as stop sale) to address non-compliance. Contravention of an order can lead to administrative monetary penalties or criminal prosecution.
Product Listing Removal:: Voluntary action taken by an online marketplace or e-commerce platform to remove a product listing by a business advertising and selling on their site. Additional corrective actions may also be taken when the product has been sold in Canada.
Public Advisory/Alert:: Action by Health Canada to notify the public about the hazard(s) associated with a product. An advisory/alert may include how to dispose of the affected products.
Stop Distribution:: Voluntary action by the establishment to halt further distribution of the affected product and dispose of it or otherwise, quarantine it to ensure it does not re-enter the supply chain.
Stop Sale:: Stop distribution by the establishment with additional actions that include contacting accounts that may have further distributed the product and retailers to have them remove the product from sale to consumers. A stop sale is also issued when a product has a safety issue that would normally lead to a recall, but none of the affected products were actually sold to people in Canada.
Voluntary Recall:: Action by the establishment to notify the public about the hazard(s) associated with a product. A recall may include instructions to return, obtain product correction or dispose of the affected products.

Health Canada's role

As a regulator, Health Canada plays an important role in protecting the health and safety of Canadians and is committed to greater transparency and openness to further strengthen trust in our regulatory decisions.

Health Canada carries out planned inspection projects for products with specific regulatory requirements under the:

Canada Consumer Product Safety Act (CCPSA)
Canada's Food and Drugs Act (for cosmetics)

Higher risk products with a low degree of compliance are looked at more frequently than lower risk products with a good degree of compliance.

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2026-05-26

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